COSTAL PLAINS OIL COMPANY v. Douglas

CARMODY, Justice.

Appellant (plaintiff below) urges error by the trial court in denying appellant the right to file a reply to a counterclaim and thereafter in entering judgment which practically offset the amount sought in the complaint by the amount alleged in the counterclaim.

The record contains no testimony, no transcript of any hearing, and discloses only the following:

Appellant filed its complaint, which was timely answered by the defendant, with a counterclaim included therein. Within a few days, after the filing of the answer and the counterclaim, appellant propounded interrogatories,…